Overview

• The accused student was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board and sent to an observation home.
• The Crime Branch filed a separate FIR under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 211 and 239 against principal G Emmanuel for failing to promptly inform police and education officials.
• A complaint of criminal negligence has been registered against the principal and two teachers over the lack of immediate medical aid, including the failure to call the 108 ambulance service, which investigators are now examining.
• Police say they have recovered the foldable box cutter used in the stabbing, collected CCTV and other digital evidence, and released another juvenile who was initially detained for questioning.
• Post-mortem findings point to fatal internal bleeding from a small abdominal wound, and a condolence gathering drew public anger with the victim’s father calling for the harshest penalty.